The Senior Cognos Developer/Analyst is responsible for developing reports, pertaining framework, dashboards, and supporting Merkle’s client Business Intelligence platforms and applications. The successful candidate will work with Merkle client teams to understand and fulfill their business intelligence/reporting information needs.

This individual must be able understand business functional requirements and reporting tool functionality; synthesize the requirements and reporting capabilities into functional specifications; prepare technical specifications; and develop and test the final product. The solution will contain ad-hoc query, drill-down, slice and dice capabilities, static reporting, managed queries, and dashboards.

The successful candidate will have hands on, in depth, experience and expertise with the Cognos 8 products as well as how to structure and design data to optimize the use of these products. Additionally working with Cognos 8 to build a reporting solutions  against existing  dimensional and relational schemas.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

·         Gathering report requirements from the end user

·         Developing reports, packages, dashboards using Cognos 8

·         Defining and maintaining Cognos framework manager projects

·         Executing, migrating and automating existing reports to support day to day requests

·         Collaborate extensively with the data development team to ensure reporting requests can be supported by the underlying data source

·         Performing analysis to investigate and troubleshoot data inconsistencies and data integrity issues when necessary.

·         Installs, configures, deploys, and tunes Business Intelligence tools and environment.

·         Develops and manages BI training, documentation, and help desk capabilities.